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Draw Your Own Bubble Letters

A Vector Drawing Tutorial using Paint Shop Pro X

From Sue Chastain, About.com

Tutorial © Copyright Arizona Kate

With this 'Creative Lettering' tutorial we'll be drawing our own letters instead of using a font. The 'bubble letter' shapes we'll be creating are all pretty simple to create using the vector tools in Paint Shop Pro. There are many fun uses for these fat, stylized letter shapes and it's also very good node editing practice! Get Started...

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  1. Create Your Own Bubble Letter Photo Frames & CutoutsSample of bubble letters used to frame photos
  2. Basic Vector Tools Create These Large, Chubby Letters Sample of letters A thru F
  3. Changing Properties & Naming Layers Vector Property dialog box
  4. The Letter A Draw ellipse, push up bottom node and adjust handles
  5. Add Center Hole to Letter A A shape with circle shape subtracted
  6. Use Grid to Make All Letters Same SizeSet grid size to match desired finished letter size
  7. Learn How to Add a Node First 4 steps to create B starting with ellipse
  8. Adding 'Holes' to B ShapeCompleted letter B
  9. The Letter C 3 steps to shaping C
  10. The Letter D 4 steps to create letter D
  11. The Letters E and FFinished E has 7 nodes and F has 6 nodes
  12. The Remaining AlphabetNode placement for letters G thru Z
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